IF YOU DON'T:
>draw the individual strands of hair
YNGMI TWIN

>op picrel
that's a simplification, which is fine

Drawing animefag clump hair is a death sentence for your art, especially if you're a /prebeg/. Just draw the fucking strands, holy hell.
>BUT SHEDING DEM IS HARD
Not if you know what you're fucking doing.
>BUT IT UGLEE
Reality is often ugly and messy, deal with it.
>NO FIT WHIT MUH STAYUL
"Style" is a pisspoor excuse, your style needs changing anyway if you're not aiming for realism.

why reason does anyone have to care what you have to say on the matter?

>>7655167
Now that's some good shit, don't know who made it but someone should show it to a Twitter "artist" and watch them squeal.

>>7655173
Let me put it this way.
The purpose of visual art is to create life that isn't or imitate life that is. But you have to understand and actively utilize the details of life itself to do so. Else it isn't "art".

>>7655176
even granting that, "imitate" is extremely vague and says nothing of the degree of imitation "required."

>>7655178
What do you want me to say, then?

>>7655179
I want submission, nothing less

>>7655167
Where can I find more master study refs specifically of this quality? Pinterest is giving me too much AI slop.

>>7655199
different websites have different artists and different portions of their drawings and paintings. a few general ones I've saved are:
>The Web Gallery of Art (wga.hu)
>The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
>Getty (getty.edu)
>The Morgan Library & Museum (themorgan.org)
>Artvee (artvee.com)
another great way to find high(er) quality images of artist's work is just to look around. if you're interested in a school or movement, look up artists from that movement and go from there.

>>7655211
these are pretty good, ty!

>>7655167
Is this supposed to be one of those balding people who will post a picture of themselves on /soc/ and will immediately get told to just stop coping and shave?

>>7655164 (OP)
Reminder: If you draw hair anything like pic related, you're not an artist.

>>7655167
>ic doesnt know who this is
sad

>>7655374
They are Anonymous

>>7655219
I mean, just look at this shit.
>janky lines everywhere
>overly clumped
>atrocious shading
Fucking awful.
JUST DRAW THE DAMN STRANDS.

>>7655164 (OP)
I tried
I don't know what to think of it

>>7655164 (OP)
What if I draw nothing but hair?

>>7655164 (OP)
The artist in your example didn't do every strand. Why are you lying?

It's just large patches of dark shapes, light shapes, and a few strands in the midtones.

What do you even get out of this? You mad you cant draw so you keep trying to crab others out of getting better? You really are pathetic, OP.

Well, I've drawn this sometime ago, not only I've draw the strands in a "shaded way", but wanted some other things to feel "touchable"

P.S.: Sorry about subject matter

>>7655170
And realism should be studied before stylization anyway

>>7657718

Absolutely.

>>7657641

Weird, but different strokes for different folks.

>>7655164 (OP)
sometimes it's not what you draw, but what you don't
music is (also) the silence between the notes

>>7655164 (OP)
the reason why they tell you this is so you think of hair as a shape and not a collection of lines